I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.